What’s In It For You? Top Reasons MBA Students Pursue Careers in Technology:

- Meaningful Work: There are few industries that shift the way the world lives and functions the way that technology does. This industry is all about coming up with solutions; it aims to make everything we do—no matter how trivial—easier, faster, and better.

- You Can Do You: For the most part, tech firms aren’t concerned with your pedigree, but, rather, what you can you do for them right now. In addition, they want you to show your genuine self, even if that means playing the banjo, displaying your tattoos, or doing stand-up comedy on the side.

- Significant Responsibility Early On: Tech companies tend to have flat organizational structures that require individuals to handle a significant amount of different responsibilities, even in entry-level MBA roles. Proving yourself early can lead to even more responsibility and faster career progression.

- High-Demand, High-Pay: Given the importance of tech in so many different industries and fields, technology professionals are always in demand. The skills you build will always be employable assets, and that usually translates into considerable compensation.

- Fast-Paced Environment: Things move quickly in this industry, which mean projects don’t become stagnant and employees don’t get bored. Diversity of work is something many MBAs desire, and tech firms can typically deliver on that without the travel associated with consulting.

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Consumer products is one of those elastic phrases that can include any of the jars, boxes, cans, or tubes on your kitchen and bathroom shelves-or it can expand to include pretty much everything you charged on your Visa card last year. This industry manufactures and, perhaps more importantly, markets everything from food and beverages to toiletries to small appliances.

The Numbers:

% Intl

Med Salary

Med Bonus

12%

$105,000

$25,000

23%

$103,000

$25,000

25%

$106,000

$25,000

30%

$96,000

$20,000

31%

$104,000

$15,000

MBA Consumer Products Roles by Function

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Finance Gen Mgmt Operations Consulting

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56%

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What’s In It For You? Top Reasons MBA Students Pursue Careers in Consumer Products:[pic 26]

- Strong Training & Development Programs: Consumer Products companies generally put new recruits through intensive management training programs, and that training continues as employees rise through the ranks. These companies are serious about developing leaders.

- Consumer-Focused, Tangible Products: Consumer Products companies make and market tangible products that are used by millions of consumers on a daily basis—and those consumers are passionate about (and really like talking about) those products.

- “Scoreboard” to Track Results: Competition is fierce within the Consumer Products industry, and the availability of sales and market share data makes it easy to determine which companies, brands, and product lines are winning—in a very real-time sense.

- Workplace Variety: It is common for employees at Consumer Products companies to change roles every 2-3 years, and those moves often involve a new brand, a new category, or a new focus area (for example, an innovation-focused role vs. a role focused more on how current products are performing).

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Healthcare can be viewed as the variety of sectors that provide goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventative, rehabilitative, and palliative